Helplines offer information on where to find local mental health resources. One option is the National Alliance for Mental Illness (NAMI) HelpLine (1-800-950-6264), where volunteers are on standby to connect people to mental health services. “The crisis call counselors can address the immediat...
We document mental and social distress of children, adolescents and adults, using data on 3 million calls to German helplines between January 2019 and May 2022. High-frequency data from crisis helpline logs offer rich information on the evolution of "revealed distress" among the most vulnerable,...
Our analysis offers numerous avenues for further research. Child and youth helplines of other countries could be analyzed. If multiple countries, or regions within a country, could be covered, then panel data econometric techniques could be applied to disentangle the effects of different overlapping ...
This resource is for young people who are being abused or know someone who is. There you will find articles, tips, resources, a child abuse quiz and the facts about what happens when someone reports an incident. There is also information on identification and prevention of all kinds of abus...
Importance Crisis text lines have proven to be an effective and low-cost means for delivering texting-based mental health support to youth. Yet there has been limited research examining the use of these services in capturing the psychological impact on youth affected by a weather-related disaster....
Thank you Peter, for volunteering your time on our crisis lines and for taking the time to successfully pursue a grant from IBM. A huge thank you also goes out to IBM, for offering this grant program and supporting our crisis services. ...
Congress approved federal funding that led to the launch of the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, a network of crisis centers and lines from all over the country. With the 2005 advent of the Lifeline, more and more people were able to find and reach local hotlines simply by cal...
parents are desperately searching for ways to let their teens enjoy the internet without becoming ensnared in the dark side of digital life. This week,TikTok announced that it would begin rolling out a 60-minutedaily screen time limit for accounts belonging to users younger than 18. Once they ...
US subtypes in solid lines, UK in dashed lines. Adult Subtypes: Purple (1): low stress, Blue (2): social/interpersonal stress, Orange (3): economic stress. Parent-Report Subtypes: Purple (1): low stress, Blue (2): social stress, Orange (3): social/economic stress Notes: ∆ Family...
Some critics point to the studies showing correlation rather than causation between, for example, social media and mental health issues. But doing actual experiments on young people that might show cause is tricky, he explains. “One, social media is relatively n...